endoself comments on More Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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Comment author: endoself 04 July 2012 04:48:08AM 0 points [-]

In any case I strongly suspect the general non-violence trend (document by Pinker) in the past few thousand years was due to because of our self-domestication.

They cite evidence of "moderate to strong heritability" of male aggressiveness. Shouldn't strong selection pressures use up variance and thus lower heritability?

Comment author: [deleted] 04 July 2012 04:56:44AM *  1 point [-]

Not in this case. At least not if Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending are right and we have more new mutations tested due to a large population than we would otherwise.